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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for the ICA 2026 Oceania Hub: Communicative Equality Against Empire: Socialism, Anticapitalism, Anticolonialism, Antiimperialism,
hosted by the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University, Te Papaioea Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand, 6–7 June 2026.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Hub is a hybrid gathering (face-to-face and online) that convenes scholars, organizers, activists, trade unionists, and community partners to theorize and practice
communicative equality as an explicitly socialist, anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiimperialist project. Over two days, we will build a shared lexicon and shared practice of refusal, positioning communication scholarship as a terrain of class struggle,
anticolonial organizing, and internationalist solidarity.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. Socialism, Class, and the Political Economy of Communication</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. Anticolonialism, Land, and Indigenous Sovereignty</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. Antiimperialism and Global Solidarity</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4. Refusal as Communicative Method</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5. The Living Lexicon of Liberation — a collaborative, co-authored decolonial, anticapitalist, antiimperialist lexicon</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We welcome individual papers, pre-constituted panels, workshops and movement clinics, multimodal and creative interventions, and lexicon entries.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Individual papers (250-word abstract)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Pre-constituted panels of 3–5 papers (500-word rationale plus abstracts)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Workshops and movement clinics (250-word abstract)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Multimodal and creative interventions (250-word abstract)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Lexicon entries (300–800 words)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Submissions open: 15 April 2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Submission deadline: 2 May 2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Notification of acceptance: 6 May 2026</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">• Conference fee: NZD $200</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please send your extended abstracts to Debalina Dutta at
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="mailto:D.Dutta@massey.ac.nz" id="OWA1b2f7f86-1944-b509-f6f9-8597188734e5" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:D.Dutta@massey.ac.nz" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="rgb(70, 120, 134)" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;"><u>D.Dutta@massey.ac.nz</u></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
Include your name, affiliation, community or organizational ties where relevant, submission type, and a short bio (100 words).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We actively welcome submissions from scholars, organizers, and community partners working outside conventional academic infrastructures, and from those whose first language
is not English. Submissions from Oceania, the Pacific Islands, South and Southeast Asia, and other Global South locations are especially encouraged.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please circulate widely.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In solidarity,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Debalina, Mohan and Sy (organising committee, 2026 ICA Hub)</span></p>
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<a name="x_x_x__MailAutoSig" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Sy Taffel, PhD</a></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director,
</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="http://perc.ac.nz/" id="OWA0c3d33c4-9d95-ea21-9e20-65f9f437d525" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Political Ecology Research Centre</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">Email: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz" id="OWA5ef459ca-8c61-d1a8-3ee6-a14e527ddbf3" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz</u></a></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;"> |
Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">Website: </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="http://sytaffel.com/" id="OWA5173df43-7863-0815-42b8-825da72e35b7" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>sytaffel.com</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">Taffel, S (2026) </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/postgrowth-digital-futures" id="OWAabd1d413-9fd1-1aac-db93-6f6419f38186" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Postgrowth
Digital Futures</u></a></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">, Bristol University Press</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">Taffel, S. (2025</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111316857-045/html" id="OWA2b788fcd-88a0-e25a-760c-c85d7c4b1d92" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>)
Degrowth and Digital Culture</u></a></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">, in DeGruyter Handbook of Digtial Cultures</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">Taffel, S. (2024) </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003441311-3/fantasies-dematerialization-sy-taffel" id="OWAff713c83-b0da-d0f2-d350-f081f142d2c2" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Fantasies
of dematerialization: (Un)sustainable growth and digital capitalism</u></a></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black;">. In Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls.</span></p>
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